Door, sash, and the like



Sept. 1952 w. JOHNSON 2,609,573

000R, SASH AND THE LIKE Filed June 24, 1950 INVENTOR WILLIAM JOHNSON ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 9, 1952 DOOR, SASH, AND THE LIKE William Johnson, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Application June 24, 1950, Serial No. 170,077

1 Claim. 1

My invention relates to improvements indoors,

V sashes and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide a rounded corner at the intersection of a stile and rail of a door or window sash or other panelling, so as to simplify the cleaning of the woodwork, and particularly the glass in the case of a sash. A further object is to provide a structure where, in painting, each stroke of the brush can be carried as a continuous movement from stile to rail and vice versa. A further object is to provide a method whereby this corner can be produced expeditiously.

The invention contemplates forming a groove transversely of the stile and rail to the depth of the rebate and filling in the groove with an insert which is subsequently concaved to continue the mould of the stile to meet that of the rail.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is an inside elevation of a corner of a window sash.

Figure 2 is an inside elevation of a corner of a window sash showing the invention.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the bottom rail of the sash before bull nosing.

Figure 4 is an outside elevation of the sash corner showing the transverse cut.

Figure 5 is a similar view showing the insert in place.

Figure 6 is an elevational view, part in section, showing the sticker head used in bull nosing the sash.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

The exemplification of the invention as here shown is to a window sash frame, one-corner only of which is illustrated.

The sash frame is indicated by the numeral l and is made up in the usual way with stiles 2 and rails 3, one only of each being shown. The stiles and rails are each provided with a rebate 5 having a base 6 and a side wall 1 and may also, if desired, be moulded on their outer faces as in conventional sash stock, or may be bull nosed as indicated at 8, see Figures 2 and 6.

The sash after being framed, has a groove 9 cut transversely across the inner intersecting edges of the stiles and rails, which groove is provided with parallel side walls I0 and angularly disposed base walls II which lie in the planes of the bottom of the rebates 5. This groove is preferably cut with a rotatable cutter [4 having side cutters l5 and base or depth cutters I6. When the grooves 9 are formed, fillets I8 having parallel side walls l9 and a V-base 20 are fitted into said groove between the outside face of the sash and the inside wall of the rebate 5 and secured therein with a suitable adhesive.

When the sash is grooved at all corners and the grooves filled as above described, it is laid upon a sticker table 22, see Figure 6, which is provided with a driven vertical shaft 23 extending upwardly therethrough. The shaft is fitted with a freely rotatable roller 24 which is adapted to ride on the base 6 of the rebate 5 and has nonrotatively secured thereto a cutter or sticker head 25 which is shaped to cut the outer face of the sash to form the bull nose 8. The sash l is moved to produce the bull nose along both rails and stiles and when the roller is moved so that its periphery engages the base of the rebate of a rail and the base of the rebate of an intersecting stile, the cutter head will form an arcuate bull nose corner 26 of the same radial depth in both stile and rail members.

What I claim as my invention is:

A window sash or the like having stiles and rails intersecting to form corners, said stiles and rails being rebated to receive a panel, a portion of the tongue forming the rebates of an adjoining stile and rail being cut away down to the base of said rebate to form a transverse groove having a V- shaped base and parallel sides, said groove being fitted with a fillet extending to the inner ends of the parallel sides and the inner exposed portion of the fillet being concavely curved to merge with the faces of the adjoining rebates.

WILLIAM JOHNSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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